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The one thing I can appreciate about working from home for so long is I haven't been sick this entire time. Open floor plans spread colds, flus, and stomach bugs around like wildfire, and it's nice to be out of the petri dish.

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This has been my experience as well. I used to get about 3 colds per year, maybe 4 if I was unlucky.

I've been at home since March and haven't had symptoms of anything which is so great.

Also this is magnified with many kids out of school. With reduced child to parent transfer those that do need to go in to the office may have less background infectivity. When my kids were in elementary school I had more sick days in a year than the ten years prior combined.

I miss taking sick days for no reason.

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